Teresa and Lonny's points messages are well taken. I hope that the pursuit of truth wherever it leads and the benefit of two centuries of 20/20 hindsight regarding Jefferson and the slavery issue will help protect us 21st-century students of history from being castigated by our own descendants for indulging in the entertaining but often trivial search for (among other things) an acceptable past while neglecting to act in regards to the more important atrocities that are occuring in our present. Here are the current upi wires on the contemporary African slave issues: http://www.vny.com/cf/news/upidetail.cfm?QID=177406 http://www.vny.com/cf/news/upidetail.cfm?QID=177031 And here are some orgs involved: http://members.aol.com/casmasalc/ http://www.anti-slavery.com/ http://anti-slavery.org/stop/ Bumper sticker seen on a car from West Virginia the other day: "I'd rather be shooting Yankees." -- Frank E. Grizzard, Jr. Associate Editor Papers of George Washington University of Virginia [log in to unmask] http://www.virginia.edu/~feg3e http://www.virginia.edu/gwpapers To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html
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